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http://dx.doi.org/10.9725/kstle.2014.30.3.177

Topology Optimization of Railway Brake Pad by Contact Analysis  

Goo, Byeong-Choon (New Transportation Research Department, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Na, In-Kyun (New Transportation Research Department, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Tribology and Lubricants / v.30, no.3, 2014 , pp. 177-182 More about this Journal
Abstract
To stop a high speed train running at the speed of 300 km/h, the disc brake for the train should be able to dissipate enormous kinetic energy of the train into frictional heat energy. Sintered pin-type metals are mostly used for friction materials of high speed brake pads. A pad comprises several friction pins, and the topology, length, flexibility, composition, etc. have a great influence on the tribological properties of the disc brake. In this study, the topology of the friction pins in a pad was our main concern. We presented the optimization of the topology of a railcar brake pad with nine-pin-type friction materials by thermo-mechanical contact analysis. We modeled the brake pad with/without a back plate. To simulate a continuous braking, the pad or friction materials were rotated at constant velocity on the friction surface of the disc. We varied the positions of the nine friction materials to compare the temperature distributions on the disc surface. In a non-optimized brake pad, the distance between two neighboring friction materials in the radial direction from the rotational center of the disc was not equal. In an optimized pad, the distance between two neighboring friction materials in the radial direction was equal. The temperature distribution on the disc surface fluctuated more for the former than the latter. Optimizing the pad reduced the maximum temperature of the brake disc by more than 10%.
Keywords
brake pad; contact analysis; topology optimization; finite element; high-speed train;
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